Being multilingual online
By Jojo
@Sojourn (13833)
India
August 27, 2019 10:20am CST
English has been the de facto standard when it comes to international communication such that a standard keyboard comes in English. As per my knowledge, there are bilingual keyboards which can input letters from two different languages where one of them is the default, English. As many mylotters have native tongues other than English, I would like to know if they have used such a keyboard to communicate through their local languages online and what has been their experience.
The problem gets mitigated to a great extent if you use a smartphone, as there is no physical keyboard only a virtual one which can be configured to input in your chosen language, but there are other issues.
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@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
27 Aug 19
I have never used it but now I want to check to see if this laptop has it available Jojo. hmm it just says INTL keyboard.
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@ilocosboy (45155)
• Philippines
2 Sep 19
Never seen one such kind of keyboard.
Maybe we can use our language but there should be translation.
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@FayeHazel (40230)
• United States
27 Aug 19
That's a good point. I have not used a keyboard other than the English one
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@birjudanak (14316)
• India
5 Sep 19
i use English keyboard but i have seen some friends with different language keyboard as get to know when they send screenshots. They have their languages keyboard from where they type.
@birjudanak (14316)
• India
5 Sep 19
@Sojourn sometimes they faced problem and shared screenshot at that time get to know because they don't know English so they must have to keep local language keyboard.
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@Sojourn (13833)
• India
5 Sep 19
@birjudanak It is difficult to type with a local language keyboard, isn't it?
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@db20747 (43419)
• Washington, District Of Columbia
27 Aug 19
Keyboards that are in English are missing some signs that could be used for other langugessuch as french, the accent mark is not on my keyboard or cell phone!! Keyboards of different languages, symbols and letters should be available in local stores!!
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@simplfred (20641)
• Philippines
4 Sep 19
I haven't seen any, my friend but I think Chinese have that kind of keyboard.
